July 13, 2018

June 29, 2018

June 15, 2018

June 3, 2018

Mesa 18.0.5 is released. This is a bug-fix release. Women's Dark Glacial Khaki Down Trespass NOTE: It is anticipated that 18.0.5 will be the final release in the 18.0 series. Users of 18.0 are encouraged to migrate to the 18.1 series in order to obtain future fixes.

May 7, 2018

April 28, 2018

April 18, 2018

April 18, 2018

Mesa 17.3.9 is released. This is a bug-fix release. NOTE: It is anticipated that 17.3.9 will be the final release in the 17.3 series. Users of 17.3 are encouraged to migrate to the 18.0 series in order to obtain future fixes.

February 15, 2018

January 18, 2018

January 8, 2018

December 22, 2017

Mesa 17.2.8 is released. This is a bug-fix release. NOTE: It is anticipated that 17.2.8 will be the final release in the 17.2 series. Users of 17.2 are encouraged to migrate to the 17.3 series in order to obtain future fixes.

October 2, 2017

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Mesa 17.1.10 is released. This is a bug-fix release. NOTE: It is anticipated that 17.1.10 will be the final release in the 17.1 series. Users of 17.1 are encouraged to migrate to the 17.2 series in order to obtain future fixes.

June 30, 2017

June 19, 2017

June 5, 2017

June 1, 2017

Mesa 17.0.7 is released. This is a bug-fix release. NOTE: It is anticipated that 17.0.7 will be the final release in the 17.0 series. Users of 17.0 are encouraged to migrate to the 17.1 series in order to obtain future fixes.

February 13, 2017

February 1, 2017

January 23, 2017

Mesa 12.0.6 is released. This is a bug-fix release. NOTE: This is an extra release for the 12.0 stable branch, as per developers' feedback. It is anticipated that 12.0.6 will be the final release in the 12.0 series. Users of 12.0 are encouraged to migrate to the 13.0 series in order to obtain future fixes.

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December 5, 2016

Mesa 12.0.5 is released. This is a bug-fix release. NOTE: It is anticipated that 12.0.5 will be the final release in the 12.0 series. Users of 12.0 are encouraged to migrate to the 13.0 series in order to obtain future fixes.

July 8, 2016

Mesa 12.0.0 is released. This is a new development release. See the release notes for more information about the release.

May 9, 2016

Mesa 11.1.4 and Mesa 11.2.2 are released. These are bug-fix releases from the 11.1 and 11.2 branches, respectively. NOTE: It is anticipated that 11.1.4 will be the final release in the 11.1.4 series. Users of 11.1 are encouraged to migrate to the 11.2 series in order to obtain future fixes.

October 10, 2015

October 3, 2015

Mesa 10.6.9 is released. This is a bug-fix release. NOTE: It is anticipated that 10.6.9 will be the final release in the 10.6 series. Users of 10.6 are encouraged to migrate to the 11.0 series in order to obtain future fixes.

February 21, 2015

February 06, 2015

January 24, 2015

January 12, 2015

Mesa 10.3.7 and Mesa 10.4.2 are released. These are bug-fix releases from the 10.3 and 10.4 branches, respectively. NOTE: It is anticipated that 10.3.7 will be the final release in the 10.3 series. Users of 10.3 are encouraged to migrate to the 10.4 series in order to obtain future fixes.

December 29, 2014

Mesa 10.3.6 and Mesa 10.4.1 are released. These are bug-fix releases from the 10.3 and 10.4 branches, respectively.

November 21, 2014

November 8, 2014

October 24, 2014

October 12, 2014

Mesa 10.2.9 and Mesa 10.3.1 are released. These are bug-fix releases from the 10.2 and 10.3 branches, respectively. NOTE: It is anticipated that 10.2.9 will be the final release in the 10.2 series. Users of 10.2 are encouraged to migrate to the 10.3 series in order to obtain future fixes.

September 19, 2014

Mesa 10.3 is released. This is a new development release. See the release notes for more information about the release.

Also, Mesa 10.2.8 is released. This is a bug fix release from the 10.2 branch.

May 20, 2014

May 9, 2014

Mesa 10.1.3 is released. This is a bug-fix release, and is being released sooner than originally scheduled to fix a performance regression (vmware swapbuffers falling back to software) introduced to the 10.1.2 release.

May 5, 2014

April 18, 2014

April 18, 2014

Mesa 10.0.5 is released. This is a bug-fix release. NOTE: Since the 10.1.1 release is being released concurrently, it is anticipated that 10.0.5 will be the final release in the 10.0 series. Users of 10.0 are encouraged to migrate to the 10.1 series in order to obtain future fixes.

February 9, 2012

Mesa 8.0 is released. This is the first version of Mesa to support OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 (with the i965 driver). See the release notes for more information about the release.

November 27, 2011

Mesa 7.11.2 is released. This is a bug fix release. This release was made primarily to fix build problems with 7.11.1 on Mandriva and to fix problems related to glCopyTexImage to luminance-alpha textures. The later was believed to have been fixed in 7.11.1 but was not.

January 22, 2009

September 20, 2008

August 26, 2008

Mesa 7.1 is released. This is a new development release. It should be relatively stable, but those especially concerned about stability should wait for the 7.2 release or use Mesa 7.0.4 (the previous stable release).

November 10, 2007

August 3, 2007

June 22, 2007

Mesa 7.0 is released. This is a stable release featuring OpenGL 2.1 support.

April 27, 2007

Mesa 6.5.3 is released. This is a development release which will lead up to the Mesa 7.0 release (which will advertise OpenGL 2.1 API support).

March 26, 2007

The new Shading Language compiler branch has been merged into the git master branch. This is a step toward hardware support for the OpenGL 2.0 Shading Language and will be included in the next Mesa release. In conjunction, Glean has been updated with a new test that does over 130 tests of the shading language and built-in functions.

April 2007

Thomas Hellström of Tungsten Graphics has written a whitepaper describing the new DRI memory management system.

December 5, 2006

Mesa is now using git as its source code management system. The previous CVS repository should no longer be used. See the repository page for more information.

March 7, 2003

Website and documentation overhaul.

The website content and Mesa documentation (from the doc/ directory) have been merged together. All the documentation files have been entered into the CVS repository. Many of the old plain-text files have been converted to html and modernized.

November 13, 2002

Mesa 5.0 has been released. This is a stable release which implements the OpenGL 1.4 specification.

December 17, 1999

December 14, 1999

Mesa 3.1 is released!

September 21, 1999

There appear to be two new files on the ftp site, MesaLib-3.1beta3.tar.gz and MesaDemos-3.1beta3.tar.gz, that seem to be... yes, I've just received confirmation from the beta center, they are indeed the THIRD beta release of Mesa 3.1! Happy Days. Happy Days. Thanks Keith Whitwell for preparing these for us during Brian's absence.

August 30, 1999

I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Precision Insight, Inc. effective October, 1999. I'll be leaving Avid Technology in September.

I've been working on Mesa in my spare time for over five years. With Precision Insight I now have the opportunity to devote my full attention to advancing Mesa and OpenGL on Linux.

While I'll be focused on Linux, the X Window System, and hardware acceleration, my work will continue to be open sourced and available to any other programmers who may want to contribute to it, or use it for other projects or platforms

PS: I'm going to be traveling until Sep 6 and won't be reading email until then.

August 23, 1999

Anonymous CVS access is back online so suck up all the bandwidth you can afford. Note that this is a new archive, so you will need to re-checkout the archive. That means don't cvs update from a previous download.

August 17, 1999

Glacial Women's Khaki Trespass Down Dark A report from the SIGGRAPH '99 Linux/OpenGL BOF meeting is now available.

August 14, 1999

June 7, 1999

RPMS of the nVidia RIVA server can be found at ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/misc/nVidia/.

June 2, 1999

nVidia has released some Linux binaries for xfree86 3.3.3.1, along with the full source, which includes GLX acceleration based on Mesa 3.0. They can be downloaded from https://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html.

May 24, 1999

Beta 2 of Mesa 3.1 has been make available at ftp://ftp.mesa3d.org/mesa/beta/. If you are into the quake scene, you may want to try this out, as it contains some optimizations specifically in the Q3A rendering path.

May 13, 1999

For those interested in the integration of Mesa into XFree86 4.0, Precision Insight has posted their lowlevel design documents at http://www.precisioninsight.com.

May 13, 1999

May 1999 - John Carmack of id Software, Inc. has made a donation of
US$10,000 to the Mesa project to support its continuing development.
Mesa is a free implementation of the OpenGL 3D graphics library and id's
newest game, Quake 3 Arena, will use Mesa as the 3D renderer on Linux.
The donation will go to Keith Whitwell, who has been optimizing Mesa to
improve performance on 3d hardware. Thanks to Keith's work, many
applications using Mesa 3.1 will see a dramatic performance increase
over Mesa 3.0. The donation will allow Keith to continue working on
Mesa full time for some time to come.
For more information about Mesa see www.mesa3d.org. For more
information about id Software, Inc. see www.idsoftware.com.
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This donation from John/id is very generous. Keith and I are very
grateful.

May 1, 1999

John Carmack made an interesting .plan update yesterday:

"I put together a document on optimizing OpenGL drivers for Q3 that should be helpful to the various Linux 3D teams. http://www.quake3arena.com/news/glopt.html"